Using Psychoeducation Materials For Co-occurring Disorders
Like a Storm
Substance use starts out as a light mist, a gentle drizzle, occasionally drinking or using in a seemingly harmless fashion. However, with even a casual glance, one can see...
Is Technology Use a Risk To Sobriety?
For many individual’s addiction is confounding, frustrating and destructive. Whether it’s sugar, caffeine, nicotine, shopping, gambling, alcohol or drugs, it seems no one is exempt. Everyone struggles with something. For many,...
Living Beyond – BE PREPARED AND AWARE: SUICIDE PREVENTION
You are not alone; suicidal ideation occurs when someone is considering taking his or her own life. It is the constant dwelling and preoccupation with suicide that heightens the risk. It...
College Mental Health: A Checklist For Parents
Approximately four million students will enroll in college for the first time this year, and the transition to university life can be overwhelming. Coupled with the known fact that many mental...
Living Beyond: THE POWER OF COMPASSION IN ADDICTION
Compassion is ultimately the ability to completely understand and share in the feelings of another. It is a powerful tool that redirects blame and shame. Its intentions are to help the...
The Interplay Between Borderline Personality Disorder And Addictive Illness
I have a beloved patient whose millennial daughter has proudly embraced her diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder stating that understanding this diagnosis has notably enhanced her self-awareness and capacity for forgiveness...
Regulation of Depression By a New Type of Brain Stimulation In Addicted Patients: Reedeming...
Depression is also known as clinical depression and major depressive disorder (MDD). This severe medical illness affects 15 million American adults every year or about 5-8% of the adult population of...
Living Beyond: WHEN IS AN ADDICT MOST LIKELY TO RELAPSE
The risk of relapse is at its highest when an addict lacks support, accountability, and an ongoing relationship with a mental health professional. While the relationship with the mental professional may...
Midlife: The Forgotten Frontier
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses...
Pets In Recovery
People have heartrending stories when they reminisce with their collection of, “Susie Q was the best dog…” or “I adored my cat Sammy…” We all remember that fi rst neighborhood kitten...
